Sunday, June 14, 2009

Alevropita...

I know you 're going to love this one.
Besides, you have had cravings for this!
So here it is...

The materials are these:
3 handfuls of flour
2 eggs
salt
water
butter
200gramms Feta

Not a lot right? Ok. So here we go...
We take the flour a sprinkle it in a small bowl, throw in
a dose of salt and about one tea cup of water. Slightly
less or more depending on our judgment. We mix them
well with our hands, and add the two eggs one by one.
We keep mixing it so that the eggs will become assimilated
in our mix. It has to be like a porridge.

After that, we take a pan and butter it well. We put our mix
in it, making sure it is evenly distributed. On top of the mix,
we sprinkle around small cubes of butter. Not too much cause
it will feel "fat". We take the feta, grind it in our hands, and
then sprinkle it on the mixture.

We take the pie, place it in the oven in a medium fire, until it
"flares". That means until it gets the desirable color.

That's it! Our pie is ready... Enjoy.

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Cherry Jam

Ok. This is going to be a recipe for A LOT of jam...
So we 'll start off with the materials:

3,5 Kgs of cherries.
3 Kgs of sugar
Juice of one lemon
2 small doses of baking soda

These are basically our materials...You 'll see that it is NOT
something difficult to make. Only thing is that you need to
a bit careful at the final stages.
First thing is the cherries. We place them in a pot (after
removing the stems of course) and boil them in water. The
point of this is to get them soft enough for the pit and the skin
to come loose.when the water boils, we take the pot with the
cherries and empty it in a dredge. Next we take a wooden spoon,
and press on the cherries. No need to mention that the dredge is
above another pot! A clean one. :P So, by doing that, the skin and
pits stay in the dredge, and the rest of the cherries falls in the pot.
So we are now left with a cherry pulp. With that in the pot, we
proceed to the next step.
Ok. This is the tricky part! It requires the utmost concentration!
We take the pot with the cherry pulp, and place it on the stove, on
medium fire, and add the sugar. Next step is to stir with a wooden
spoon. We test the jam by taking out the spoon, and letting the jam
drop in the pot. When the pot falls as a thick jam-like mass, our jam
is ready! Then we add the lemon juice and let it boil for 5 more minutes.
Then we add the 2 doses of baking powder, and let it boil for another 5
minutes. Do not forget to keep stirring over those 10 minutes.
That's it! Our cherry jam is ready! Let it cool off. No need for a fridge.
Just put it in glass or clay jars and let it cool off. Room temperature is
more than enough.

Enjoy with people you love...